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EOBERT GOOD Editor and Prop
VALENTINE
NEBRASKA
The new tax on chewing gum will
have a tendency to make the bicycle
lrl not quite so jawful
The Memphis Commercial Appeal ed
itorially asserts that the osculatory
Campaign is now over It is all over
Whitctfmb Riley speaks of the drum
is giving forth a melody sublime In
ascribing melody to a drum lUley baa
Scored a beat
s A resident of Hunts Ilollow N Y
ivlro recently died at the age of 80
lived thirty years without a chin He
-took no part in politics
Government shells are marked U
Pro which stands for United
Stages projectile Certainly these
pheHs at least are pro Spanish
Some one writing on the subject of
VA Womans Right to Be Ugly fails
o note that woman as a rule is not
clamoring for that particular right
No phronologist need be called on to
prove that since scorching bicycle col
lisions became common the bump of
desf ruetiveness lias developed among
riders
So strong is the boycott feeling
figa mst that country that there is one
chuwce in ten billion that Maine sar
dines wont hereafter be sold in boxes
avitlr French labels
- The leading lubs of New York have
Bbolfshed the pernicious system of
tipping waiters Henceforth the
waiter may expect na quarter at the
liands of anyone
VMan says a writer is a highly
organized machine The majority of
iiini however is not so highly organ
ized as the political machine particu
larly along about voting time
OutWest the other day a young far
mer killed a girl because she refused
to go to singing school with him He
must have had queer ideas about the
best way to secure harmony
Brazil claims the distinction of hav
ing introduced coffee into the Philip
pines in the latter part of the eight
eenth century This was followed a
hundred years later by the United
States introducing iron and steel
The agreement between Japan and
Husski recognizing the independence of
Corea finally establishes on a firm ba
cti the txtstence of a new power in
the affairs of the world Corea has an
area of some S0000 square miles and a
population of some 10000000 and as
its area is productive and its popula
tion intelligent much may be expected
of it in the future
Apropos of the growing friendship
fcetween Anglo Saxon peoples the
Washington Star has this report of a
conversation between an American girl
and a young Englishman She asked
Can your country forget that wt
Whipped you He responded cheer
fully Oh you only whipped a few of
xis and you couldnt have done that
If you hadnt been our kind of peo
ple
It is a significant fact that a colony
pf English speaking people instead of
abandoning their native tongue and
jembracing that of their adopted na
tionality Invariably adhere to their
own language and eventually color that
of the people with whom they are
rought into contact It is also signifi
cant that English is the only language
which is now showing rapid growth
3kIost of the other tongues are slowly
flying
It Is fortunate that the regular sol
jdiers of the United States have been
grained to encounter the American In
jdian who in he line of bush fighting
lias not his superior in the world who
invented a smoke signal system of his
jown and who adopted the looking glass
or heliograph code before our army did
who in the matter of following a trail
or concealing one has never been sur
passed who will bury himself in the
Band and with a bunch of dried grass
lied to his head lie still for hours and
pass for part of the surrounding vege
tation
A West Point officer Captain Parker
-writing for a recent magazine shows
that the great need of our volunteer
iirniy is trained officers It is estimated
that In an army of 400000 men we
would need 15000 officers The original
Idea of the West roiut academy was to
provide a reserve of officers who in civ
il life would always be available to com
mand and train raw levies In 1815
with a population but one tenth what it
jiow is the maximum number of cadets
at West Point was fixed at 200 It is
only 371 to day The original purpose
jof the academy has been lost sight of
jCaptain Parker recommends that the
number of cadets authorized by law be
increased from 371 to 2200 or that
three military academies be establish
ed having all told the needed 22G0 ca
dets It would be understood that all
these men would not remain in the
army but they would be organized into
n reserve of officers all of them subject
to the call of the government in case of
war
Girls are apt to resent the opinion
liold by many of their friends and even
some of their admirers that they do not
Icnow how to think and that they gen
erally refuse to concentrate their atten
subject In resenting it the ordinary
3oung woman will exclaim with assur
ance that the criticism isnt true thai
many a girl lias thought herself into a
headache which no one will deny buj
even this one tormenting young skepti J
saucily declares is quite frequently
done after the manner of the girl in tho
story of How One Girl Studies Shu
places her box of chocolates on the
table and while eating them and pol
ishing her finger nails says aloud and
Indistinctly of course The three an
gles of a triangle are equal to two right
angles Oh dear I hope It wont rainj
to morrow and spoil that picnic The
three angles of a triangle are equal t
two right angles I saw George Morris
and Sue walk off together and they
just may for all 1 care The two angles
of a triangle are equal to three right
angles There those chocolates are no I
so large as those that were on top The
three right angles well this old tiling
Is too stupid There is nothing in it but
nonsense so thore
England has had a sailor King
within the recollection of many of our
older readers When did the United
States ever have a sailor President V
When at any time was a sailor seri
ously talked of by the politicians and
newspapers for that office Its really
worth thinking about this discrimina
tion against our laureled victors whose
victories are won on the water Our
wars have made many Presidents The
Revolution gave the country President
Washington The War of 1S12 gave it
President Jackson The Indian wars
gave it the first President Harrison
The Mexican campaign gave it Presi
dent Taylor The War for the Union
gave it President Grant Hayes Gar
field Benjamin Harrison WiHiani Mc
Kinley were helped toward the White
House by their war records But every
man of them all did his fighting on
land In the early years of the repub
lic the stout old Commodores con
tributed much more glorious pages to
its history than the Generals and a
good many more of them Yet which
one of the Commodores ever got with
in seeing distance of the White House
Which one of them so much as dreamed
of casting an ambitious glance in that
direction Farragut the Admiral was
as illustrious a figure as Grant the
General He had a far more striking
and picturesque personality His fame
is no less immortal The people won
dered delightedly at his matchless ex
ploits They honored him in their
hearts as he deserved to be honored
But they never even thought of mak
ing him President nor did he ever
dream that they would The man who
goes into the American navy for life
bids an everlasting good by to political
ambition at the waters edge Why it
should be so seems inexplicable That
it is so cannot be disputed
Among the many virtues Vhieu ive
liold in honor that of modesty occu
pies a comparatively small place Wo
are apt to confound modesty winu self
depreciation which if sincere can
only claim compassion and if insin
cere merits contempt The true idea of
modesty is that of a correct estima
tion of self alike opposed to overween
ing self conceit and cringing self-abasement
It is an undoubted fact that
great men are as a general thing more
modest than little ones Such men
probably know their own powers more
correctly than others but they meas
ure them by a higher standard They
have found out how much there is to
learn which they do not yet know
how much there is to do wntch they
have not yet done What is true of in
dividuals is true of nations National
greatness and national modestv go
hand in hand In our present grave
crisis we are drawn as individuals into
closer relations than usual with our
country and we are feeling our one
ness with her in no common degree
Her prosperity or adversity her honor
or dishonor her wisdom or folly are
pre eminently ours also What then
shall be our attitude to day One of
flippant exultation and self-glorification
or one of faithfulness to truth
and therefore one of modesty By
Avhat standard shall avo measure our
nation That of inferior and weaker
communities or with the best and
highest ideal which we can conceive ol
a nation just and upright noble and
honorable wise and intelligent free
and happy in herself magnanimous
and generous to those beyond her bor
ders Shall we love her the less for
knowing her more truly Shall we
work less energetically for her be
cause we see how she may be im
proved If we are more modest in her
praise shall we not be the more anx
ious for her true honor There Is a
mistaken notion in many minds as tc
what patriotism really demands It is
supposed that a true patriot must al
ways yield to his country an unbound
ed admiration and an unlimited ap
proval He must see no blot upon her
record no flaw in her actions no mis
take in her judgment no selfishness in
her aims Such an attitude necessar
ily fosters national
vanity crushes na
tional modesty impedes national pro
gress The true lover of his country
knows that she is human and therefore
fallible his earnest desire for her is
fhat she may be purged of all base pas
sions and sordid motives and that she
may continually rise to nobler heights
everything which constitutes True
Jonal greatness Not by wholesale
plaudits and exultant boasts shall we
truly honor our country or prove our
patriotism but rather by the modesty
which springs from truth and the
faithful love that longs for her highest
welfare above everything else
Holds the Diving Recor L
A diver in the Clyde recently worked
for forty minutes at a depth of lG
feet whk is a record in Great Britain
No person enjoys drinking in a con-
tion long enough to reason upon any jersation of the extra dry brand
Suit Against Mallalieu
In accordance with the report made by
the Mutz investigating committee some
lime ago Attorney General Smyth lias
commenced snit in the district court of
Buffalo County against John T Mallallen
of the industrial school at Kearuev and
his bondsmen F J Switz E J Rnbert
son and J II Irvin to recover an alleged
deficit of 445838 together with interest
at the rate of 7 per cent from February 1
3897 The petition recites that in 1891
John T Mallalieu in his capacity of su
perintendent of the industrial school sold
to the Oxnard Beet Sugar Company at
Grand Island twenty two carloads of
beets the property of te state of Ne
braska for which he was paid the sum of
5118607 In 1892 he sold to the same com
pany forty three carloads of beets for
285554 in 1893 seven carloads for
14288 in 1891 twelve carloads for 60335
in 1S95 twenty eight carloads for 8191223
and in 1896 thirty three carloads for 1
92158 The total amount received by him
for the sugar beets belonging to the state
was S9SlGli whereas he onlv accounted
to the state for 5 910 On this deal the
state wants 397256 It is also alleged
that in the fall of 1892 Mr Mallalieu sold
to D M Ferry Co 18572 worth of seed
belonging to the state and that he refused
to account for it in any manner Again
in December 1896 ho sold to David Land
relh Sons 3001 pounds of White
Spine cucumber seed for 42450 and
turned over to the state only 1245 leav
ing a deficit of 300 The petition states
that Mr Mallalieu has converted to his
own use 445839 and asks in addition to
judgment for the same with interest that
he defendant sha ll pay the costs
Bryans Regiment Mustered In
Adit Gen Corbin received the follow
ing telegram from Hon Wm J Bryan
Omaha July 13 I have the honor to
report thall was mustered into the service
today and await oiders The men will be
uniformed equipped and ready to move
i within a few days I beg to testify to the
illieieucy of Lieut Duff mustering officer
and Lieut Morgan acting quartermaster
Bryan
Colonel Third Regiment Nebraska Vol
unteers
As soon as Col Bryans regiment is
ready to move it will be ordered to join
Maj Gen Fitzhugh Lees corps the
Seventh on the east coast of Florida
Indian Loses a Leg
Schuyler Wells Yellow Horn an
Omaha Indian had his leg amputated be
low the knee at Pender Several months
ago he ran a rusty nail into his heel and
he neglected to have it cared for by a
physician He however doctored with
iome old Indian doctors who did not suc
ceed in curing it He feared if he came to
a white doctor he would cut off his foot
His wound became so bad from this lack
of treatment that blood poisoning set in
i nd he was persuaded to yield to the am
putation
Dies or His Wound
John Sullivan the young man who was
i hot by a gang of tough tramps in a box
ar near North Bend died at Fremont
from the effects of his wound Sullivan
at first identified two men whom he
uiuugiii um me snooting but later was
uncertain about them and as the trainmen
ould not identify them they were dis
charged Tneie is little prospect ol his
murderers being punished
Killed by Chloroform
Kent C Hayden receiver of the Capilal
National and German National banks of
Lincoln was found dead jn his room as a
result of an overdone of chloroform He
had returned from a trip to Denver suf
fering from insomnia and took the drug
his wife insists in order to induce sleep
He was accustomed to the iise of the
drug Mrs Hayden said but by accident
took loo great a quantity
Roller mill D stroved
The Rattle Creek i oiler mill burned wili
everything in it last Monday night The
mill has been in liiigation for about ten
years and lately was sold at sheriffs sale
to Hugh Herbison of Madison The fire is
supposed to bo of incendiary origin Great
excitement prevails and now develop
ments are expected
Tramp Killed by a Train
An unknown tramp was run over aiul
instantly killed by a northbound Missouri
Pacific freight near Fulls City He was
silting on Hie edge of the track where J
Newcomer was killed the Fourth
Rail Team Will Tour
The Tecumsch ball team is soon to go
over the stale on a jaunt playing the na
tional game in the largest cities or where
over games can be arranged for with a
promise of profit
Falls Through a Window
John Gird lineman for the Humboldt
Telephone Company while workingat his
regular duties fell through a plate glass
window cutting his left leg at the knee
iiuiie badly
Otoe County Doctors Organize
A number of the physicians ot Otoe
County met in Nebraska City and organ
ized the Medical Association of Otoe
rouufy Officers were elected for the en
suing year
Chnpnell Creamery Burned
ih Chapped creaniMV burned to
ground a few nights since Origin of
fire is unknown Loss l0C0 no
surauce
the
the
in-
Killod in a Runaway
Ethel the 5-year-old daughter of J W
Amerson was alnost instantly kiUed by a
runaway team at Trenton
Two Years in Prison
Judge Marshall of Fremont sentenced
Joseph Beets to two years in the peniten
tiary for concealing a stolen calf Beets
entered a pica of guilty and was much
surprised at his sentence He has a tough
reputation as a criminal having served
four or five terms in the county jail for
stealing hogs chickens harness etc
Convention Called
The Democrats free silver Republicans
and Populists have called their respective
county convention to meet in Tecuniseh
Saturday July 23
L
STATE OF NEBRASKA COMPANES threaten board
OF THE WEEK IN A CON
DENSED FORM
Attorney General Starts an Action
In tJufTalo County to Recover
Over Four Thousand Dollars from
John T Mallalieii OLher Items
New Move Made in the Telephone
and Express Hutc Case
A new chapter has been opened in the
telephone and express company serial
which was begun by Representative Yei
scr of Douglas and Senator Feltz of Keith
Couuty some months ago The state board
of transportation recently notified W W
Morsman who is attorney for both com
panies that dates had been set when he
would bo expected to appear and produce
testimony showing reason why charges
should not be lowered in the business of
of the respective companies The date
set for the telephone case is July 25 and
the Pacific express case July 28 Both
companies have replied in the following
form
To Constantine J Smvth Joseph W
Edgerton James C Dahlman and Gilbert
L Laws You and each of you will
please take notice that the plaintiff in the
above entitled cause has filed in the office
of the clerk of the district court of Lan
caster County its supersedeas bond and
that said bond has been approved by the
cleric of said court as provided by law
whereby tho order of injunction in sakl
cause is continued in force
Please take notice that unless you
forthwith recall proceedings advised di
ivct3d and instituted by you in violation
of the said order of injunction proceed
ings will bo instituted charging you wilh
eon tempt of court bv reason of such viola
tion
The reply is signed by their attorney
W W Morseman Attorney General
Smyth will hold that the companies arc
not entitled to a supersedeas bond and it
is the intention of the board to pay no at
tention to the notice received from the
companies
Two Cattlemen Drowned
William and Henry Thompson two
young cattlemen living at Lakeside this
state were drowned a few days ago in
Lone Tree Cieek at Dakota Junction five
miles west of CJiadron William Thomp
son and his wife Henry Thompson and a
sister were on an outing trip and were
driving from Hot Spring S D to Chad
ion where they expected visit friends
before proceeding to their liom3 ranch
When they reached Dakota Junolion at a
point where the wagon mad runs parallel
with the creek and ihe EHJhorn Itailrond
track they found that water from the
creek had inundated a portion of the rond
The two women alitilited from the buggy
ami walked down the track while the men
started to drive ino the water Henry
Thompson Ihc driver knew nothing of
the steep enbankment leading fiom the
road to the natural banks of the stream
and guiding the horses too close to the
edge they floundered into the water it
being ten feet deep The vehicle was
overturned and horses and men were
drowned while Iheir sister and the elder
brothers wife of four weeks gazed on
horror stricken
Accidental Shooting
While a party of young people were
going to a picnic at Hastings Miss Grace
Ilcilman was accidentally shot through
the left thigh by a 22 caIiber rifle The
boys and girls in the wagonette had been
using the rifle to shoot at marks by the
roai side wiien Norman Webster at
tempted to walk from the front to the rear
of the wagonette with a cocked and loaded
rifle in his hands As he reared the end
he stumbled and at the same time pullel
the trigger The bullet from the rifle
passed through Miss Heilraans left thigh
and left an ugly wound
Bridge Gives Way
As Lewis llorloir a young farmer at
tempted to cross the Pepoon bridge over
tho Nemaha River about four miles north
of Table Hock with a load of wheat the
bridge gave way and the entire load was
precipitated into the river a distance of
iweniyuve or tinny leet The horses be
came tangled up in the harness and tine
water being about five feet deep Lemic
could not get them out but he succeeded
in tying their heads out of water and then
went for help which he received and the
team was extracted Mr Horton was hurt
internally
Loss to Ranchmen
Reports have been received of consider
able loss to ranchmen living along Run
ning water in Sioux Ceunty on account
of floods in that stream caused from the
recent rains The dams holding water
for irrigating purposes belonging to J W
Earnest A McGinley J II Cook and oth
ers have been washed out causing dam
age amounting to several thousand dol
lars
Pioneer Missing
Canny Hanks one of the wealthiest and
best known farmers of Ote Couuty is
missing from his home near Minersville
A searching party has scoured the country
round about but no trace of the missing
man has been found His friends fear
that he has been foully dealt with lie is
a pioneer resident of the couuty
I n Tant Fatally Injured
A 4 monlhs old infant belonging to Dr
F T Fleming of Nebraska City ws
fatally injuied by falling out of its car
riage and under a horses feet standii g
near One arm was broken and its bouv
terribly bruised
Greene Named by Acclamation
The Populist convention of the fcixth
congressional district was held at IirVcen
Bow W L Greene the present incum
bent was the only candidate He was
icnoniinatcd by acclamation
Water Tank Falls
The tank of the Beeiner water works
burst a few days since The hoops ge
way wheie I hey were riveted and the i n -fell
twenty five feet making a noise that
could be heard a half mile
Nebraska Short Notes
The Eustis creamery has commenced
operations
Battle Creek now has telephone com
munication with the outside world
The first convention of the Hamilton
County Womans Suffrage Association
will be held in Aurora on July 20
A Clay County man found a quails nest
containing fifteen ergs He put the eggs
in an incubator and now has fourteen lit
tle quail
Reports come from all over I he state that
there is a scarcity of harvest hands
All the outstanding warrants of Madi
son County have been called in and paid
up to July 1
Tlie Ponca people have soni3 money re
maining in the fourth of July celebration
fund and they propose to use it to buy a
cork leg for John Graves an old soldier
Sherman County has a co operative hail
insurance company The man who is
hailed out is to receive one budiel of the
kind of grain destroyed for 100 bushels
raised by the other members of the coin-
pan v
HISTORY OF A WEEK
Friday
Admiral Camara with his fleet which
had passed through the Suez canal order
ed to return to Spain
Col Wood of the rough riders made a
brigadier general and Lieut Col Roose
velt promoted to the colonelcy of the regi
ment
A Spanish privateer reported cruising
in British Columbian waters ready to
prey on vessels returning from Alaska
with treasure
Officials at Washington expect that
Spain will begin negotiations for peace in
a few days Important dispatches have
been received with this end in view
Military precautions taken in Spain to
prevent expected outbreaks Soldiers dis
gusted with condition of affairs while re
publicans have issued a circular headed
Prepare Reports that Spain would
sue for peace caused an advance in Span
ish bonds
Saturday-
Thousands of refugees from Santiago
have flocked to the American lints and
the problem of feeding them is a serious
one for Gen Shaffer
Damage sustained by the battle ship
Iowa in the Santiago fight may prevent
that vessel joining the eastern squadron
that is to attack the Spanish eoast
The Associated Press correspondent at
Berlin reiterates that notwithstanding
official denials Germany Russia and
France are scheming to intervene in the
Philippines when certain conditions arise
President McKinley has refused the
offer of Gen Linares Spanish command
er at Santiago to surrender conditionally
The truce whioh would have expired Sat
urday at noon was extended twenty four
hours and all day the question of surren
der was considered
Sunday
Austria is said to be contemplating pro
posals for immediate intervention by the
European powers in behalf of Spain
It is -said at Madrid that peace negotia
tions are considered urgent the hopeless
ness of the war situation being recog
nized
Admiral Cervera fifty throe of his offi
cers and G38 of his men arrived at Ports
mouth N H on the auxiliary cruiser St
Louis as prisoners of war
Gen Brooke has placed an embargo on
passes for soldiers at Chickamauga be
cause of frequent acts of lawlessness in
Chattanooga since pay day The arrests
have averaged 200 daily
From 4 oclock in the afternoon until
dark the American artillery poured a
deadly fire into the Spanish lines at San
tiago The reply was weak indicating
as believed that the end of Spanish resist
ance is near
Monday
Gen Miles arrived at Santiago do Cuba
at noon
Report is made that the Infanta Maria
Teresa is the only ship of Cerveras fleet
that can be saved
Du Bosc and Carranza Spanish repre
sentatives in Canada told by the Cana
dian officials to quit tho country
Gen Shafter reports that in the action
of July 1 3 at Santiago twenty three offi
cers and 20S men were killed 80 officers
and 1203 men were wounded and that
81 men are missing
For two hours in the morning Admiral
Sampsons ships threw shells toward San
tiago One of them blew up a church
filled with ammunition Just as Gen
Snaiter began ms land attack a flag of
truce was seen coming from the city
which stopped the fighting
Attack on Santiago resumed the fleet
joining the army in sending shells over
the hills into the town Great damage
done General Wheeler went into the
city under a flag of truce and demanded
the surrender of the town for the third
and last time During the fighting the
Spaniards in the trenches suffered heavy
losses
Tuesday
General Miles reached the front at San
tiago and assumed command of our
forces in the field
General Dufiield is in the isolation hos
pital and is in a very serious condition
The nature of his ailment is not stated
It has been decided that submarine
mines in American harbors are no longer
needed and they will all be exploded
Wednesday
Fierce rainstorms have drenched the
troops at the front
Sagasta said at Madrid that the moment
for peace negotiations had come
A few cases of yellow fever are being
treated in a field hospital near Santiago
The victims are teamsters and refugees
President McKinley and his cabinet
have decided that the capture of Santiago
must be effected with expedition in conse
quence of the terrible climatic conditions
and the danger to our men owing to an
outbreak of yellow fever
Admiral Dewey reports that a German
cruiser prevented the Philippine insur
gents from capturing Isla de Grande in
Subig bay Whereupon he sent the Ra
leigh and Concord to capture the Island
and turn it over to the insurgents Over
1000 Spaniards were made prisoners and
a quantity of ammunition was captured
Thursday
Gen Toral commander of the Spanish
force at Santiago de Cuba surrendered
to Gen Shafter
The United States Government will
now turn its attention to the capture of
San Juan Porto Rico An expedition is
to be started at once under Gen Brooke
Ah inspired article in the Cologne Ga
zette declares that there is no truth in tho
report that a German cruiser interfered
in any way with the operations of Ad
miral Dewey in the Philippines
Tho Florida and the Fanita convoyed
by the gunboat Peoria have landed large
expeditious at Talo Alto on the -south
coast -of Cuba In the lightingvvhich took
place Captain Jose Manuel Nunez was
killed Hid Winthrop Chanler of the rough
riders ad several soldiers wounded
Sparts from the Wires
Twenty business blocks in the Little
town of Rogers Texas were destroyed by
fire
Chili has sent an ultimatum to Argen
tina dving her until Aug 15 to setlhTthe
boundary dispute
The number of immigrants to the Uiwt
ed States shows a marked decrease duriii
the past few weeks
An American flag said to be the largest
flag in the world measuring 75 feet 0
inches by 57 feet was flung to the breeze
at Mauch Chunk Pa
GOOD YEAR FOR EXPORTS
A Great Increase in Wheat and Pro
visions old Abroad
The record of the most remarkable year
in our export trade has been completed by
the bureau of statistics so far as relates
to exportation of wheat corn and other
breadstuffs pork beef and other provis
ions cotton and mineral oils The figures
show in most casos a large increase in
quantity and value of the articles export
ed though In some cases notably mineral
oils and cotton the export price by the
unit has averaged less than in the pre
ceding year The cotton exported in
creased from 3103754149 pounds to
3341332S00 pounds while the total1
value last year was 230S00971 and that
for the year just ended 229907477 The
exportation of mineral oil increased from
073514940 gallons to 1022210379 gal
lons yet the total value in the year just
ended was only 55171001 against 02
635037 in the preceding year
In provisions including beef pork and
dairy products the value of the exporta
tions is greater than last year being
154454074 against 13713S0S4 last
year In wheat corn oats and rye the
incrense in both quantity and value was
strongly marked The exportation of
wheat for the year incbulini flour as
wheat amounted to 215171001 bushels
which exceeded the exportation of any
preceding year except thrt of 1892 which
amounted flour included to 225005812
bushels The value of the wheat and
Hour exported during t he year just ended
amounted to 2l2S9iG39 a sum only sur
passed in JSS0 and 1S92 the total in 18S0
being 225879501 and that of 1892 beiug
23G7G141G
The figures on the principal articles for
the fiscal year compared with those ot
the preceding year in values are as fol
lows
Wheat bushels
Flour barrels
Cora bushels
Meal barrels
Oats bushels
Oatmeal pounds
Rye bushels
Cotton pounds
Mineral oil gal
Ions
Provisions
1S9S S97
1442f2S40 TD92017S
G3C1S790 55014347
73r02237 54087152
1757830 9020G1
20591432 8750207
174S329 1071340
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229907471 230S90971
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AGAIN THE GRASSHOPPERS
The Destroying Pests Due to Visit
the United States This
The Agricultural Department at Wash
ington announces that a visitation of that
dread pest the grasshopper wKI take
place this year One army of the locusts
kiiown as the 17 year brood will capture
Illinois Michigan New Jersey New
York North Carolina Ohio Pennsylva
nia Virginia West Virginia and Wiscon
sin while the 13-year-old broed will sweep
over Arkansas Georgia Kentucky Illi
nois Indiana Louisiana Missouri Mis
sissippi and Tennessee
Since the close of the civil war there-
have been five periods of extensive lo
cust ravages and each of them was for
the time it occupied far more destruct
ive of property than war The first was
in 1866 in which the damage was suffi
ciently great and widespread as to at
tract national attention The insects
swarmed over the Northwest but did
their greatest damage in Kansas Nebras
ka the western counties of Missouri and
Northeastern Texas They were ofton oo
thick that trains were seriously delayed
du account of the immense numbers crush
ed on the railroad tracks The progeny
of those that fell upon the country in that
year did considerable damage the next
year but it was evident from their debil
itated state and their quickly perishing
that they were not to be feared as an ever
present scourge But later in the season
fresh swarms came from the Rocky
Mountains and re enforced the failing
hosts in the western portions of the Mis
sissippi valley As late as 1809 some rem
nants of these swarms were noticed im
Nebraska and Kansas and in each of
three years after that in spots in West
ern Kansas in Western Iowa and in
larger districts of Colorado nnd TTtnh
much damage was done but whether by
the progeny of the migrators of 1SGG or
by new arrivals was not definitely ascer
tained The damage from the original
and the after sporadic visitations amount
ed to many millions of dollars and besides
there was much suffering in consequence
of a shortage of food supplies
flie count- invaded by the locusts in
1S73 74 extended from the north end of
Lake Winnipeg to Austin Texas and
from the Rocky Mountains to near St
Paul Minn to Des Moines Iowa and
to the western counties of Missouri
MANY ARE KILLED
Explosion in Water Tunnel New
Jersey Powder Mill Blows Un
Eleven men are entombed in the new
water works tunnel at Cleveland Ohio
0555 feet from shore This second catas
trophe in the tunnel attended y loss of
life brings the total number of lives lost
within the last six weeks to eighteen A
dull rumble was heard which told that an
explosion had occurred
A rescuing par
ty started down the long tunnel but was
driven back by the noxious gases in the
tunnel Air pumps were put to work im
mediately hut the men could not be reach
ed The explosion was caused by a spark
from the electric lights coming jn contact
with a vein of natural gas The men
were engaged in bricking up the inside
The explosion was in the shore tunnel
thirty seven feet below the bed of the
lake
An explosion in the works of the Lafiin
ilc Rand Powder Comnanv at Pomnton
j Lakes N J killed fifteiu nn
them several soldiers who had been de
tailed to guard the powder works A
short time ago there was an explosion
which killed six men Since the outbreak
of hostilities with Spain Col Le- of the
Third New Jersey volunteers and a bat
talion of his regiment have beoi stationed
at the works to prevent its destruction by
spies There was a terrific report wliieh
shook the bandings and scatt ed the
iroops and employes The military form
ed in line and stood guard about the plant
and refused to allow anyone to asproach
the works
At a picnic at Sulphur Spanks a sum
mer resort oast of Ardmore Lt
mua oi w ynnewood was Ae viofcfiu of
a fatal knife wound near tke heart and
Tom Craig of the saino town wic -
badly evt J E Blocker nm crr e o
Ihur bpnnirs were arrested and hared
with the cutting
Not far from the final resting place of
Mr Gladstone in WestminsterAbbev is
the tomb of GenJohH Burgovre who
was defeated by Gen Gates at the battle
of Stillwater and surrendered
to the con
tinental forces at Saratoga in 1777
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